Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 08:41:34 03/21/00
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On March 21, 2000 at 09:52:14, Eelco de Groot wrote: >On March 21, 2000 at 07:25:21, Tina Long wrote: > >>Hi guys, >>We received the PrettyPark Virus (worm) from a CCC member today. >> >>It is a file called PrettyPark.exe If you receive it attached to an EMail, DO >>NOT RUN THIS FILE, just delete it. >> >>Once we received it, & ran the file (I'm a trusting soul, & it did have a >>Stan-Sth Park Icon), it aimed to send EMails to everybody in our Address Book, >>spreading the virus to them. >> >>As far as we know we have nobody in our Address Book (where's our address >>book?), and everytime our computer tried all by itself to log into the internet >>we smacked it's wrist, so we think we didn't send it to anybody. >> >>But as we got it from a member of CCC, others here may have received it too. >> >>http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q249/9/21.ASP >> >>gives the method of removing the virus if you have received it. >> >>It doesn't delete anything, but it tricks your computer into not wanting to run >>Applications. You can run applications by clicking on files (eg. a .txt will >>open Notepad, .htm will open Navigator etc). >> >>If anybody wants help, feel free to EMail me. >> >>Thanks Guys, >>Tina Long > >Thousand apologies, the virus came via me. Bruce Moreland, Jeroen van Dorp >Stephen Boak and Tina were in my address book so if any of you received Pretty >Park.exe do not open it. Problem is now that I followed the instructions in the >article Tina posted but some applications still do not run directly, that is to >say Internet Explorer I can open only by opening a file and when I start the >computer I get an error message that says, in Dutch, the equivalent of: Access >denied to C:\Program Files\MSWorks\Agenda\WKCALREM.EXE >So I thought this may be a new variant of the virus? Anybody any ideas what to >do? Any suggestions very much appreciated! Help please and sorry again! I post >this here because I do not know if it is safe to use email at the moment. > >Eelco At the moment Outlook Expres is also down so I can't read any email. I am at a bit of a loss here. Renaming MSIMN.EXE to MSIMN.COM was not allowed because program is used by Windows. Found some additional info at http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q250/9/31.ASP?LNG=ENG&SA=PER&FR=0 but no luck. Anybody help? Eelco
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